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Youthline Publishes New Research

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Youthline has just published two research projects relating to youth health services in conjunction with Counties Manukau District Health Board. 


The first involves best practice for health services to young people in Alternative Education, while the second looks at an evaluation framework for Community Youth Health Centres (CYHC).


Both projects are geared towards improving health and social outcomes for young people and their families.


Youthline research manager Jayne Lowry says it is important to ensure that health services for young people are accessible and relevant, particularly for young people in Alternative Education, who often experience lower health and social outcomes. 


“For some of these young people the Alternative Education School is the only thing they are connected into and the research reognises that a model of health provision that wraps around the school is the best way of meeting their needs.”


Young people involved in the project consistently stressed the need for flexible services which allow them confidential access without an appointment.


The second project looked specifically at how Community Youth Health Centres might evaluate and measure their effectiveness, with a resulting evaluation framework to guide services in this process.


The results showed that Community Health Centres can be informed by best practice research but also practitioners and young people.


“CYHC’s can’t be approached from a purely academic model because sometimes one of the biggest outcomes is that the young person becomes connected into their community, which makes a massive difference to the young person’s life but is not always easily quantifiable.”


The next stage of this project will be the development of an online self assessment tool to measure Youthline’s effectiveness, which will be available to other community youth health centres.


Both research projects are available online at www.youthline.co.nz

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